Congratulations to Meredith.  She is the winner of our $100 Lands’ End Giveaway! 

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Meredith plans to share the gift card with her mom.  I’m sure she’ll enjoy the high quality merchandise from Lands’ End.

Thanks to everyone that participated in the giveaway.

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The Lands’ End $100 giveaway will be ending in 24 hours.  You could use this to get a new swimsuit, dress, pants, school clothes, backpack, or some other special item. 

Be sure to enter the giveaway before it ends at 11:59 pm on June, 14, 2009.  Good luck everyone!

Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of trying out a few Lands’ End clothing products.  Let me say, I am impressed with the quality of their products.  Until a few weeks ago, I’d never owned a Lands’ End bathing suit.  As mentioned in my review, I’m extremely pleased with the fabric, SPF protection, and the information on choosing a suit for your body shape.

I told you earlier this week that I’d have a special surprise for you.  We’re giving away a $100 credit to Lands’ End.  Woohoo!

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As usual, I have several ways for you to earn entries.  Of course, the more times you enter, the higher your odds of winning.  Here are your options:

1)  Leave a comment telling me why you like Lands’ End products or what you would buy with the $100.

2)  Tweet this giveaway on twitter.  There is an easy tweet button to your right.  Be sure to leave your twitter name or status url in the comment box.  You can earn 3 tweet entries per day for each tweet.

3)  Follow @thriftymommy on twitter.

4)  Blog about this giveaway or mention it on some sort of forum. Leave a direct url so that I easily find the info for your entry.

5)  Give this post a thumbs up on Stumble Upon, Digg It, add a link on Facebook, or some other way of promoting the giveaway.

6)  Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle to your blogroll.

You can earn entries for each of these things that you do.  Please leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier for tallying entries and choosing a winner.

This contest ends Sunday, June 14, 2009.  Winners will be contacted via email and will have 72 hours to respond.

Good luck everyone!

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A Full Cup is a FREE online forum with printable coupons and the latest information on money saving deals.  You can click on links to find sale and coupon information for just about any store.   They are celebrating the new look and enhanced features by offering giveaways on their site and one here at Thrifty Mommy.

I have been challenged to see how much I can save by using A Full Cup.  I am excited about using the online printable coupons and the information on coupon match-ups to find the most savings.  It’s a thrill to find food and toiletries for almost free!  I will be posting my A Full Cup savings later this week, so stay tuned for that.

Here’s a YouTube video that explains a little bit about how the site works. I found it to be beneficial.

Save Green and Go Green with AFullCup.com Giveaway - A Full Cup is sponsoring a Thrifty Mommy giveaway with an A Full Cup reusable shopping bag and a $25 prepaid American Express card!  Woohoo!

Ways to enter the giveaway:

Please leave a comment for each one.  It just makes it easier when choosing a winner.

1)  Register at A Full Cup using the referral link here at Thrifty Mommy.  Leave me your AFullCup name.

2)  Be an active member at A Full Cup.  After you have registered using the referral link, to become an active member you need to post five or more times on the forum.  Leave me your AFullCup name.

3)  Check out A Full Cup and leave a comment below telling me your favorite features of the online forum.

4)  Take the A Full Cup savings challenge.  Since you have to shop for groceries anyway, see how much you can purchase with $25 or $50 while using A Full Cup.  Post your savings on your blog and leave a link here or let us know in the comments.  We’d really enjoy hearing how you did.

5)  Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter.  Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

6)  Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 seconds ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

7)  Give the post a thumbs up on Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

8)  Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

9)  Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

10)  Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle and/or to your blogroll.  You can earn a separate entry for each one.

This contest ends Thursday, April 23, 2009 and is available to those with a U.S. shipping address (no P.O. boxes please). The winner will be contacted by email and will have only24 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen so be sure to check your email. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in comment box).

Good luck everyone and thanks for playing!

Just as promised, we are letting you know of some great products this month for Earth Day.  This time, I had the opportunity to review some of the Bright Green™ cleaning products. Bright Green is a new line of home care products featuring cleaning and laundry soaps made with biodegradable and naturally derived ingredients, energy-efficient light bulbs and paper products made from 100% recycled content.  The Bright Green products are sold exclusively at Safeway stores.

I was able to review the Bright Green dishwashing liquid and all purpose cleaner.  The question that I have often asked myself is, “Is it possible to use green cleaning products and get the same results?”  My experience so far has been a positive one.  In all the environmentally friendly products I have tried, I have not found a difference in the way the product cleans from the other products. 

The Bright Green dishwashing liquid cleaned my dishes very well.  It took the grease off my dishes and had a very pleasant lavender scent.  My son especially enjoyed it.  He asked if he could wash dishes, which in our house means that I put some soap and water in a bowl and he “washes” some of the dishes in the sink.  He ended up using 1/2 of the bottle, so there were lots of suds and my kitchen smelled great for days.  lol  The Bright Green all purpose cleaner is great for the kitchen or garage and it has a refreshing lemon scent.

And now, on to the giveaway!

The giveaway includes an attractive  reusable shopping bag and $1 coupons for Bright Green cleaning products.  Safeway credits customers $.05 each time they use any reusable bag at the checkout.

There are many ways to enter this contest.  You can choose as many as you’d like.

You can earn an entry for each item you complete, but you must leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier to tally and pick a random winner.

1) Leave a comment telling me why you’d like to win this prize or why you use green cleaning products.

2) Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3) Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 seconds ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

4) Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter. Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

5) Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

6) Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

7) Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle and/or to your blogroll.  You can earn a separate entry for each one.

This contest ends Sunday, April 12, 2009 and is available to those with a U.S. shipping address (no P.O. boxes please). The winner will be contacted by email and will have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in the comment box).

Good luck everyone!

At Keeping the Castle, I am giving away a huge assortment of candy from Tootsie Industries.  If you win this, you definitely won’t need to buy any candy for Easter.

Some things included in this giveaway - Tootsie Roll miniatures, Charms Blow Pops, Charms Blow Pop Minis, Andes Mints, Sugar Babies, Dubble Bubble egg shaped gum, Tootie Roll banks, Tootsie Roll fruit rolls, Tootsie Roll Pops, Junior Mints, and so much more!  

This giveaway ends Sunday, April 5 and the winner may choose a traditional or Easter-theme candy pack. Good luck!

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What’s your biggest complaint about combination locks?  Remembering the combination of course!  How many have you thrown away?  This issue is even worse if you have children that need to lock up their bikes or gym locker.  I was so excited to hear that there is finally a solution for this problem.

Wordlock locks are the first combination lock that allow you to set your combination with words.  Engineer Todd Basche designed them so that he and millions of others could remember an easy four or five letter word combination.  Wordlocks can be set to several different easy to remember combinations such as pilot, flash, words, loop, bike, fast, laser, party, sport, mouse, water, and so much more.

The Wordlock product line includes luggage locks, padlocks, bike locks, and cable locks, which are available at Target.com and Amazon.com.  The locks also come in a variety of eye catching colors such as blue, black, red, and pink which makes it much easier to spot your locker at the gym.

I love to put cool products into your hands so now on to the giveaway!!! :)  Three winners will receive one padlock and one bike lock.

There are many ways to enter this contest:

You can earn an entry for each item you complete, but you must leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier to tally and pick a random winner.

1) Leave a comment telling me why you’d like to win one of these locks.

2) Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3) Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 minutes ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

4) Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter. Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

5) Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

6) Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

7) Add Thrifty Mommy and/or Keeping the Castle to your blogroll.  You can earn a separate entry for each one.

Each prize package is valued at $24.98.  This contest ends Saturday, March 28, 2009 and is available to those with a U.S. shipping address (no PO boxes please). The winner will be contacted by email and will have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in the comment box).

Good luck everyone!

Over at Keeping the Castle, I have two great giveaways going on.

The first giveaway is a prize package from Gum brand.  There’s a little something for the kids and adults.  For the kids, there is a Crayola Timer Light Toothbrush and Crayola Kids’ Flossers.  The light up toothbrush is pretty cool because it helps kids remember to brush longer.  For the adults we have two Summit toothbrushes, a 90 pack of eez-thru flossers, and soft picks with a travel case.

The next giveaway includes five copies of Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Home.  Mrs. Meyers is two parts common sense and one part inspiration.  Read it and you will learn how to clean like the dickens.

Good luck everyone!

The launch party is still going on each day at Berries & Cream Blog Design.  Revka has prizes lined up each day for the party.  Thrifty Mommy has sponsored one of the prizes.  You can win a Veggie Tales pack which includes Jonah, a VeggieTales movie (VHS tape) and Jonah: Even Fish Slappers Need a Second Chance (book).  The giveaway ends Tuesday, March 3, 2009.  Click here to enter. 

Thanks to Revka for designing our fabulous new Thrifty Mommy button.

Last week I posted about the free monthly download from Charity & the JAMband.  Now I have more exciting news for you.  Charity has donated a cd bundle for a giveaway!  I know how much you thrifty people like free stuff. 

Charity and the JAMband’s music is contagiously fun.  I listen to it with my kids and suddenly moods are changed and we’re snapping and dancing to the music.  My little boy said it himself when he said, “Mommy, this music makes me feel better.”  Awwww.

This cd bundle includes 4 cds from Charity & the JAMband.  This prize is valued at $52. 

How to enter:

You can earn an entry for each item you complete, but you must leave a separate comment for each one.  It just makes it easier to tally and pick a random winner.

1) Leave a comment.  Tell me what you would do with these cds or which songs you like.

2) Give this post a thumbs up at Stumble Upon and leave your Stumble name.

3) Tweet this post and leave your Twitter name or status url. To retrieve your Twitter status url, simply click on the timestamp of your tweet. It will say something like, “5 minutes ago from the web”. You can earn 3 twitter entries each day for each time you tweet this giveaway. You must leave a comment for each tweet.

4) Follow @thriftymommy on Twitter. Leave a comment with your Twitter name.

5) Blog about this giveaway and leave a direct link to your post.

6) Mention this giveaway on any forums or message boards and leave me a link.

7) Add Thrifty Mommy to your blogroll.

8)  Sign up for the Charity & the Jamband newsletter.  Simply enter your email at the bottom right of the screen.  Once again, you must leave a comment telling me you’ve done this.

Other info:

This contest ends Tuesday, March 3, 2009 and is available to U.S. residents only. The winner will be contacted by email and will have 72 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. You will not be put on a mailing list, but you must include your email address in the second box under your name (not in the comment box).

Good luck everyone and thanks to Charity for donating this great prize.